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RB 56/00083 Pyrite-pyrhotite deposits at Nairne.
The Nairne Pyrite Deposit occurs at Drukunga, three and a half miles east of Nairne, and 29 miles from Adelaide on the eastern flank of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The deposit is being worked for iron sulphides. Operations commenced in 1955 as a joint...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1965
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RB 60/00045 Report on overseas visit, April-July 1964. Part 2: Evaporites, brines, sulphur.
Whilst overseas during the period April to July, 1964, the writer visited, in addition to phosphate deposits, most of the major potash mines and a number of evaporated-salt, rock salt, brine and sulphur operations in North America, Europe and Israel,...-
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Published: 10 Mar 1965
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Rehabilitation of the Nairne Pyrites Ltd quarry area and treatment of acidic effluent. Progress and final reports on investigations for the period March 1973 to June 1975.
A chemical survey of Dawesley Creek in the Brukunga Mine area has concluded that seepages from the southern mine waste dumps located alongside the creek contribute the greater proportion of pollutants (acidity, iron, aluminium, manganese, zinc,...-
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Mount Alberga. Progress reports for the period 21/4/86 to 20/4/87.
Native sulphur associated with salt domes was the target near Mount Todmorden. No field work was undertaken.-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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Todmorden. Progress reports for the period 21/4/1986 to 20/11/1987.
TARGET: Native sulphur associated with possible salt dome structures, the locations of which were interpreted from past petroleum exploration seismic reflection surveys. EXPLORATION: A detailed gravity survey, and 2 rotary/core drillholes totalling...-
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Published: 13 Jan 1988
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Wintinna Hill, Welbourn Hill Homestead, South Neales River and Mount Willoughby Homestead. Joint progress reports to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 11/11/1986 to 10/11/1987.
An extensive review was undertaken of the potential of the eastern Officer Basin area extending 50-150 km west of Oodnadatta for hosting buried native sulphur deposits in association with salt dome structures, but the recommended follow-up exploration...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1988
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Drilling report, Todmorden 2.
Todmorden 2's primary objective was to confirm an inferred salt dome located below a gravity low anomaly. The well intersected an impervious quartzite cap rock, a dolomitic sandstone with traces of native sulphur, and an evaporite and red siltstone...-
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Economic feasibility of producing sulphur from gypsum.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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RB 67/00028;Amdel 599 Extraction of sulphur from gypsum, part 1.
Background: Australia currently imports about 430 000 tons of elemental sulphur per year, valued at about $12,000,000 in 1966. The sulphur is purchased from Canada, the USA and Mexico. The annual production of elemental sulphur in these three...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1968
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RB 66/00119 Report on Nairne pyrite deposit, Brukunga, Hd Kanmantoo - Nairne Pyrites Pty Ltd.
In August 1966, a request for assistance with conducting pyritic sulphur exploration in the vicinity of Brukunga was received by the SA Department of Mines from Nairne Pyrites Pty Ltd. Brukunga is 29 miles east of Adelaide by road and 3.5 miles north...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1968
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RB 73/00260 Sulphur, SA. In: Knight, C.L. (Ed.) - Economic geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. 4, Industrial minerals and rocks.
South Australia has no known reserves of elemental sulphur. On the southern shore of Lake Eyre native sulphur occurs as nodules within crystalline gypsum resulting from micro-biological reduction of gypsum (Bonython and King, 1956; Baas-Becking and...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1976
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Lake MacDonnell Gypsum Project 21st May 1969. Summary report.
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Published: 01 Jan 1969
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Bunabie. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 200 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and 28 km...-
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Koonalda. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary core holes totalling 130 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast and south of...-
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Lake MacDonnell. Progress reports for the period 17/6/1968 to 16/6/1969.
Investigations included studies on production of sulphur, sulphuric acid, and other chemicals from gypsum, a feasibility study on scaled production operations for export of gypsum, and product marketing studies. There are no technical difficulties...-
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Published: 14 Dec 1968
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Nullarbor. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/5/1972 to 17/11/1972.
In a search for carbonate mineral bulk raw materials suitable for use at the BHP Whyalla blast furnace as fluxes in steel-making, 5 exploratory vertical rotary cored holes totalling 189 m were drilled on the Nullarbor Plain near the coast just west of...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Camel Lake. Annual reports to licence surrender for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2023.
An area located ~ 70 km north-east of Ooldea Siding and 50 km east of Maralinga is being explored for the industrial mineral kaolin, and more particularly its crystallographic form halloysite, which typically occurs as microtubules or nanotubes which...-
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Published: 21 Nov 2023
